THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
46 Friday, June 25, 1982
Former Soviet Jewish Refusnik Campaigns to Gain Child's Aliya
- By HEIDI PRESS
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Dr. Alexander Tiemkin is
on a mission — to establish
communication with his
daughter, Marina, whom he
has not seen for nearly 10
years, and to bring her to
Israel, which granted her
citizenship.
Tiemkin, a theoretical
physicist at Tel Aviv Uni-
versity, is a former Russian
refusnik who was granted
an exit visa by the Russians
in 1972, with his then 13-
year-old. daughter.
When the two went to
pick up their exit visas, they
were told only one visa had
been issued — for Tiemken.
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Later, the two were taken
by the Moscow police to be
interrogated, and finally
the courts decided to return
Marina to her mother's cus-
tody because her father's
Zionist activities were a bad
influence, Tiemken said.
Tiemken said that in
February 1973, Marina
was .forcibly taken from
her home to a Soviet
youth camp for "re-
education." He added
that she was able to
sneak away to a phone to
contact another refusnik
who called her father.
Tiemken rushed to the
camp to see his daughter
before being discovered
by camp officials.
He has not seen her since,
but last had contact with his
daughter in 1979. She re-
portedly is living in Moscow
with her mother, from
whom Tiemken is divorced,
but no information is avail-
able on her whereabouts,
according to Tiemken.
He said he blames his
ex-wife for his loss of contact
with his daughter. "She
helps the KGB (Soviet
secret police). She is against
my ideological view."
According to Tiemken,
his ex-wife, a child
psychiatrist and senior sci-
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Education Sciences, felt
that her job would be
jeopardized if Marina were
to go to Israel.
Tiemken said that
Marina learned about Is-
rael and Jewish life and
studied Hebrew under
his direction.
Tiemken said that in con-
junction with the Helsinki
Accords, he can't even send
his daughter an invitation
to join him in Israel be-
cause, he believes, the KGB
has stopped her mail.
"I would want to know if
she's married, has children,
what her husband's name
is," he said in thickly ac-
cented English.
The Israeli Foreign
Ministry made contact with
the Dutch Minister of
Foreign Affairs for him to
help set up a meeting in
Amsterdam with his daugh-
ter.
While in the U.S., under
the sponsorship of the
Union of Councils for
Soviet Jewry and the
Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry, Tiemken
hopes to publicize his
daughter's, and for that
matter his, plight. •
"The Soviets are afraid of
publicity," he said.
Tiemken has already met
with U.S. politicians, who,
he said gave him a "very
good reception." He said De-
troit Congressman William
Ford was interested in
helping Tiemken estab-
lish communication with
his daughter.
Tiemken's U.S. visit in-
cludes stops in New York,
Washington, Chicago, De-
nver, Phoenix and San
Francisco. He also is
scheduled to attend an in-
ternational chemistry sym-
posium at the University of
California at Davis.
Asked if he was aware of
other Russian Jewish
families suffering a similar
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) — A.
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of the Israeli public believed
their standard of living has
improved during the past
two years. The survey also
revealed that half the public
didn't see any change in
their living standard.
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are other children in the
same circumstances "but .
there's no telling how many.
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daughter helps the other
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